This book is full of inisights and honesty ... These people will stay in your head and keep their hands on your heart. Grodstein's skills at storytelling are unwavering.

In her wonderful second novel, Grodstein traces a suburban crisis and gives especially perceptive attention to the father-son bond... An astute dissector of male aspiration, Grodstein brings great insight into a father's protective urge for his son in this gripping portrait of an American family in crisis.

Beautifully told

A gripping account of paternal love gone wildly astray

There's nothing polemic or didactic about Grodstein's story, but she's written such an incisive diagnosis of aspirational America that someone should hand out copies at Little League games and ballet recitals ... What Grodstein captures so strikingly is the anxiety of a father's love ... Horrifyingly plausible and deeply poignant

I'd thoroughly recommend it.

Compelling and quick to unfold. Readers will find themselves racing for the finish.

A gripping plot, a moral dilemma and unexpected tenderness makes it a winner.

A gripping account of angst-ridden fatherly love and a suburban idyll blown apart

An absorbing read

Beautifully crafted

A literary big hitter with a velvet touch

Dark and brilliantly absorbing

The Other Family is highly involving, deeply humane

Trollope is a barometer of modern middle-class mores, with a talent for pin-pointing the burning issues in supposedly ordinary lives

Joanna Trollope has many, enviable skills but perhaps her greatest is for identifying and illuminating the emotional truths of contemporary life

Well drawn and convincing

Trollope explores, with infinite delicacy, the strands that make a family

An absorbing contemporary novel from one of our most perceptive writers

Trollope has created a fount of bitchy tension which she manipulates with great skill